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The Practical Visionary
Today’s chief information officer must enable the organization to meet its strategic goals and to envision goals that were never before possible.

For the CIO, thinking strategically has never been more important. New technologies are changing how companies relate to their employees, customers, suppliers, partners, sales channels, and markets. As operations and markets become more fragmented, there is an ever-greater need for IT to bind together a company and quantify its collective intellect. The CIO can earn a seat at the leadership table by helping to set and realize long-term goals and by augmenting the capabilities of the entire enterprise.

Booz Allen Hamilton's Michael Farber, Tom Greenspon, and Jeffrey Tucker are the authors of the strategy+business article "The Practical Visionary."

story posted March 26, 2008